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...sweltering Lagos one night last week, throngs surged toward the gaily decorated race track, where bands played and dancers swayed. Precisely at midnight, a mighty roar went up as a green-white-green flag was hauled aloft to replace the Union Jack. With that, Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation (36 million), became independent and took its place in the councils of the world. Solemnly, 40,-ooo voices rose in the new official anthem...
...follow along. Khrushchev proposed that other chiefs of government should head their U.N. delegations and work toward a disarmament agreement. Recalling the Soviet practice of timing rocket feats for propaganda purposes, the West braced itself for some Soviet space stunt on or about Sept. 20-perhaps rocketing a man aloft in a space capsule and bringing him back alive...
Insect muscles that burn fat are fairly economical, but those that burn carbohydrates such as glycogen are lavish with fuel. Reports Wigglesworth: the carbohydrate-fueled fruit fly, Drosophila, can stay aloft for five hours at a stretch, but it beats its wings 250 times per second, and it burns up 10% of its body weight during an hour's flight-proportionately as much fuel as a 600 m.p.h. jet airliner. Drosophila's cruising speed: 2-3 m.p.h...
...your own Robert Goddard. We learned about rockets from him." Robert Goddard was a space prophet without honor in his own country. Back in 1926, an obscure professor of physics at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., he heralded the coming space age by sending an ungainly rocket aloft from a snow-covered field at his aunt's farm in Auburn. At the request of alarmed residents, the Auburn police asked him to get out of town. His neighbors in Worcester considered him a crackpot, with his talk of rockets to the moon. They called him "Moony," were relieved...
...after any realistic hope of winning the nomination in 1960 had faded away, Rockefeller leaped onstage again with a 2,700-word statement accusing Nixon of failing to speak out on national issues. The nation and the party, said Rockefeller, cannot march "to meet the future with a banner aloft whose only emblem is a question mark." Many a cynic inferred that Rockefeller, eying the 1964 presidential nomination, wanted Nixon to lose in 1960. and was deliberately trying to undercut him. But Nixon took a soft-answer tone, defended Rockefeller's right to voice his disagreements with the Ad ministration...